#11484: Sage optional package installs are very fragile -- need improvement or
alternative
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Reporter: ijstokes | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.1
Component: build | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
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Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by ijstokes):
There was some discussion about this on #sagemath and wstein explained how
this didn't even make sense, since an SPKG could do "rm -Rf /". I assume
that any SPKG that is included as one of the listed optional or
experimental SPKGs has gone through at least *some* kind of installation
test before it is added to that list. If that is the case, then my
suggestions can be condensed to these two points:
1) That all listed packages (optional and experimental) have a trial
install on at least one common Linux variant and one common OS X version
(10.5 or 10.6). This would prevent the "rm -Rf /" type of SPKG being
listed.
2) That there be some kind of "uninstall" process to remove a package. If
a single uninstall command is too much, then a documented process that is
better than "read the SPKG details and work backwards" would still be
helpful.
Ian
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